the old malls are dying lions and I have talked about this concept on the WAN
show for years now especially in the tech space the idea of a big box store
is crumbling stores like Best Buy are starting to dry up and disappear but
that doesn't mean we don't need brick and mortar shops anymore I'm here to
show you what I personally think could be the solution let me know if uh by
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some time now going to a big box electronic store has been rather
inconvenient they very likely don't have what you're looking for other than a few
Diamonds in the Rough their sales staff probably have no idea what they're
talking about and they just going to fire off specs from the same little card
that list the price which probably isn't very low anyways the staff are also
likely on commission and are going to try to upsell you at every opportunity
and Gabe and forbid you ever get on the topic of a service plan because you
might not get out alive but can you blame them they're probably underpaid
it's very possible that these sales employees at a big box store are at or
below the poverty line and they probably need their commission gains to get by a
shy situation for both of you overpriced product uninformed sales staff limited
selection aggressive and pushy sales tactics often a waste of time and money
with a hefty side serving of frustration and annoyance this has pushed a lot of
the techy crowd to smaller Boutique shops mom and pop stores and the on
online etail Solutions but the showroom idea is still nice a lot of the time we
want to see a product in person before we buy it and The Limited selection of
the small stores and the inherent website nature of an eil
don't allow for that type of interaction enter sin Trend the potential Saving
Grace of brick and mortar during the reign of Amazon and various other eilers
the focus of s Trend creative park or the S Trend Mall seems to be a showroom
style experience for new products with a heavy focus on comfort and relaxation
everyone I asked working in a shop was clear and open with the fact that they
won't really be having special sales and they'll be selling everything at MSRP
because of this they know you're probably going to go find a better price
somewhere else especially considering there is a really cheap Tech Mall
literally connected to the same building they don't need to be pushy for a sale
because sales aren't their metric the companies involved ranged quite a bit
but the main PC and mobile tech guys I noticed were MSI ASUS Intel Acer Lenovo
tiiba HP Sony HTC Sennheiser transcend
and Razer and that's just a few of what is actually there the floor layout was
split into categories the first floor floor was mainly mobile the second floor
was mostly computer hardware and accessories the third floor was cameras
the fourth floor was more camera stuff mostly focused on accessories and also
some speakers the fifth floor was audio file headphones the sixth floor was
mostly like figurines with Gundams and stuff like that and the seventh floor
was little kid and toddler stuff with some other various things scattered
throughout like 3D printers on the second floor and this crazy cool racing
simulator thing where you actually put on a full racing suit which didn't
really fit me but then get into the racing simulator which cost
$50,000 but then while you go around corners and stuff the whole thing will
lift you around and move you and whatnot and it's super cool and you can
apparently get an actual racing license there if you take a course and blah blah
blah anyways that was cool and that's all the floors for now but in the future
they'll be opening five more floors the eighth being explore the ninth being
dine the 10th being dream the 11th being make and the 12th being show whatever
those actually mean on the first floor Intel was set up showing a wide range of
products and for fun they had these two racing Sims set up which were wild a
racing chair and racing wheel hooked up to three massive TVs for an amazing
panoramic Racing Experience again just for fun moving upstairs though is where
the real fun started Floor 2 was definitely for me stores up here ranged
in styles from just being a straightup boutique gallery to stuff like a Seuss
who has a comfy couch set up where people can learn how to use their various products with trained staff that
will also host your birthday party for you if you're a customer and give you
cake and presents so random but also so
awesome my favorite store however was the razor store and I'd say it was the
most popular store there as well they had everything there from various
potential razor gear setups along the outer walls to a a laptop land a desktop
land and even a console fighting game area tucked away in the corner the vibe
here was great and they had it going on with a huge range of casual tournaments
and a super welcoming environment people are encouraged to just hang out as long
as they would like and much like the rest of the stores in this mall the
sales counter was Tiny and mostly ignored by patrons and staff because
that just wasn't the point I could definitely see myself going to one of
these little stores if there was one locally for the amateur tournaments
especially the Hearthstone Fireside G togethers which are awesome let me know
what you guys think in the comments down below or over on the Forum would you
like a mall like this near you or maybe just one of the specific stores thanks
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